NASA engineers at their control consoles at Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Flight Operations Facility, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 1964 Part 10

Inside Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Flight Operations Facility, NASA mission control engineers are seen sitting at their control consoles. This took place during NASA's space probe Ranger 7 mission. Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 1964. Ranger 7 was the first NASA space probe to successfully transmit close-up images of the lunar surface back to Earth. It was also the first completely successful flight of the Ranger program. Launched on July 28, 1964, Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar-impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact.